Abode
of Abide
pret. of Abide.
Act of waiting; delay.
Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation.
An omen.
To bode; to foreshow.
To be ominous.
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Abode Quotations
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
Voltaire
A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
Chanakya
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Ovid
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Abu Bakr
And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.
Donald Cargill
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
Edmund Waller
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.
Nelson A. Miles
Abode Translations
abode in Afrikaans is woning
abode in Danish is lejlighed
abode in Dutch is woonplaats, domicilie
abode in French is domicile, demeure
abode in German is Aufenthalt {m}, geblieben
abode in Italian is soggiorno
abode in Spanish is estacionamiento
abode in Swedish is boning, hemvist, vistelse
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